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mustfly

Brand new vinyl cutter

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Hey everyone !  I've been a member of the Tee shirt forum for quite some time, as I own a digital garment printing business, but have decided to NOT leave the vinyl market unaddressed any longer.  I purchased a US Cutter laserpoint II and the SCAL 3 software (came with it).  It's seems very straight forward, with many functions/commands that are already familiar to me on my Mac.  The wifey and I both use Macbook Pros and wouldn't switch back come hell or high water.  I design with Illustrator CS3, she with CS6.  We are both in the baby steps stage right now, but chomping at the bit to master the cutter/software.  I can see myself tapping in to the resources here, just as I did on the T-shirt forum when learning DTG printing.

 

One question that has already come to mind is when doing sports jerseys, for example, and I want to have a contrasting colored outline around them,....is there a command within SCAL 3 that allows me to cut the front layer as is, then specify a second slightly larger cut for the background in order to end up with stroked numbers and letters once the two layers are combined.  Or,..is this something I need to do within Illustrator.  If so, how ?  Thanks in advance for all the forthcoming advice,...this is gonna be fun !!

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Do it in AI if you have the ability. SCALP sucks to design with. You might even try out the free week trial of SignCut Pro and get clear away from SCALP. SignCut is strictly a cutting utility that you can either send files from a  plug-in in AI or just down-save to AI version 8 and open them up and cut them from the program itself. It's mac compatible and a great cut-only program. 

 

There are many tutorials for AI on youtube and some helpful threads in the AI section of this forum. Welcome to the forum.

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